Myanmar junta ups death toll to 28,458 (Extra)

Myanmar junta ups death toll to 28,458 (Extra)
M&C
Yangon – Myanmar’s ruling junta upped the official death toll from Cyclone Nargis to 28,458 Sunday, but horror stories filtering into the former capital Yangon with the homeless suggest a much higher number.
Military-controlled MRTV put the death toll at 28,458 with 33,416 missing in a broadcast Sunday night.
But [...]

Wrecked Myanmar leaves India aid pilot speechless

Wrecked Myanmar leaves India aid pilot speechless

By Bappa Majumdar

A child plays in flood water 30 km from the centre of Yangon in this handout photograph taken May 9, 2008.
REUTERS/Joe Lowry/International of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies/Handout

 
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Miles of trees stripped of their leaves, heaps of rubble, twisted electricity poles and swarms [...]

Tragedy of dead and survivors in Myanmar grows worse

Tragedy of dead and survivors in Myanmar grows worse

By Aung Hla Tun YANGON (Reuters) – Desperate survivors of Cyclone Nargis headed out of Myanmar’s Irrawaddy delta in search of food, water and medicine, but aid workers said on Sunday that thousands will die if emergency supplies don’t get through soon.
 
Buddhist temples and schools on the outskirts [...]

U.N. says 220,000 reported missing in Myanmar cyclone

U.N. says 220,000 reported missing in Myanmar cyclone

Sun May 11, 2008 6:26pm

Villagers display a sign saying ‘Help Us’ in a road near Kundangon May 11, 2008. The number of people reported missing in the Myanmar cyclone was about 220,000, the United Nations humanitarian agency said on Sunday.
BANGKOK (Reuters) – The number of people reported missing [...]

Myanmar toll may be 150,000

Myanmar toll may be 150,000
 
 
 
 

ONE NEWS May 11, 2008 6:17 PM
 

Aid agencies now say up to 150,000 people may have died in the Myanmar cyclone and they are battling to prevent disease and starvation pushing that figure even higher.
Help for the hundreds of thousands of survivors is still only trickling into the country.
The picture of [...]

How and where to make a contribution for Myanmar Cyclone disaster victims (in English)

How and where to make a contribution for
Myanmar Cyclone disaster victims (in English)

 
 

MERCY Malaysia will be deploying a two-member relief team to Yangon tonight (8th May). A second team will be deployed on Friday. If you wish to support our efforts to bring emergency humanitarian aid to the survivors of Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar.
MERCY [...]

Heartbreaking photos of Cyclone Nargis

Tragic photo of Cyclone Victims of Burma, Mother cried for the children
by Sit Mone
WHY? WHY? WHY? THE Image may be subject to copyright?
I GOT THE PERSONAL PERMISSION FROM SITMONE. SOME TIMES HE PUBLISH MY ARTICLE. BOTH OF US MUTUALLY AGREE TO ALLOW TO TAKE ANY THING. WE MUTUALLY COMMENTED RECIPROCALLY.
WHO IS THE CLAVER PERSON PUTTING ALL THESE COPY [...]

Burma referendum begins while aid trickles in

Burma referendum begins while aid trickles in
Allegra Stratton and agencies
guardian.co.uk,
Saturday May 10 2008
Article history

An unidentified man votes in Burma’s controversial referendum
 on a new military-drafted constitution at a polling station at
Hlaeuk township near Rangoon.
Photograph: AP
 
Voting on a controversial constitution began in Burma today while aid for people left starving and homeless by the cyclone was still [...]

Protest against referendum in Kuala Lumpur,Malaysia

UPDATE:
Burmese groups protest referendum outside embassy
Malaysiakini news
More than 500 Burmese refugees and students demonstrated outside their embassy in the Malaysian capital, calling for a referendum in the reclusive nation to be scrapped.

Burma’s ruling generals went ahead today with the ballot for a new constitution despite the major devastation wrought by Cyclone Nargis last weekend, which [...]

Gone with the wind in Myanmar

Gone with the wind in Myanmar

Residents rebuilding a house near Bogalay, Myanmar on Friday. (Agence France-Presse)

International Herald Tribune
Published: May 9, 2008

BOGALE, Myanmar: The water has not receded fully, and few aid trucks have made it here. Only one helicopter, from the Myanmar military, was spotted all Friday, dropping off instant noodle packages around a devastated [...]

Prescription, dispensing, suffering (Pt 2)

Prescription, dispensing, suffering (Pt 2)
Product Of The System in Malaysiakini
Rules in any game should be fair and just and implemented on both parties.

If doctors are to be prohibited from dispensing,

shouldn’t pharmacists too be forbidden from diagnosing, examining, investigating and prescribing?

Yet this is exactly what takes place everyday in a typical pharmacy.

I have seen with my [...]

Read this: Apartheid Myanmar Buddhist Chauvinistic SPDC

Read this: Apartheid Myanmar Buddhist Chauvinistic SPDC
 I just heard on the Democratic Voice of Burma about reports of obstructing, confiscating and insulting of SPDC Military authorities to the Burmese Muslims rice doners from Daunt Tan Mosque.

 Those Burmese Muslims were just only trying to distribute rice bags to the cyclone victims.

SPDC authorities stopped them and [...]